ORLANDO voters told THERE IS NO DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY! Refused ballots.

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(as if it even matters -- but here it is, anyway)

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-bk-polls012908,0,4785381.story


Area voters reporting problems at polls in Florida primary
One voter was told by poll workers there was no Democratic primary today

By Robert Perez | Sentinel Staff Writer 2:46 PM EST, January 29, 2008



On Florida Primary day, glitches at the polls are cropping up across Central Florida from Daytona Beach to Hunter's Creek, including one Orange County precinct where voters were told by workers early on there was no Democratic primary today.

Phil Marjason said poll workers at precinct 145 would not give him a Democratic ballot. "I thought it was plain wrong," he said. "We need to get Florida straightened out." Orange County Election Supervisor Bill Cowles confirmed that the clerk at the precinct made a mistake.

"I have learned that we did have a situation right at 7 a.m. this morning," Cowles wrote via e-mail to the Sentinel. "The clerk admits she made a mistake." But Orange County officials said their records show Marjason was given a Democratic ballot and it was cast. Marjason disagreed. "You sign a piece of paper then you walk over to the next table and they hand you a ballot," he said. "It probably shows that I signed for it, but they didn't give me a Democratic ballot."

Sheneka McDonald spent 10 minutes trying to convince poll workers at the same precinct that she should have a Democratic ballot. She questioned poll workers when she was handed a Republican ballot but was told, "this is the only ballot we have.
"I said, 'How can this be the only ballot,'" McDonald recalled. "That's when the guy chimed in from the back and said the Democratic primary was in March."